Improvement in manttre-hooks



MICHAELSTQLL AND HENRY4 GROSS, or MIDDLETOWN, PENNSYL- VANIA, ASSIGNORS To HENRY GROSS.`

Letters Patent o'. 84,691, dated December 8, '1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN MANURn-Hooxs The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

ments in Manure-Hooks; and 'we hereby declare' the following to be a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the drawings that accompany and form a part of these specifications, in whieh- Figure-l is a perspective view.'

Figure 2, view showing 'the manner of discharging the load.

Figure 3, view showing a different `manner of at aching the handles.

Figure 4, Vview showing manner of arranging Athe pants-when the beam is made of wood.

Letter A, handles, by which the machine is guided.

`Letter B, beam.

Letter G, hook, in form of a coarse rake.

Letters' d d', rods or bars, connecting the handles.

Letter e, short lever, attached to the bar d.

The object'of our invention is to provide a machine that, with the aid ofa horse, will greatly facilitate the Vcleaning of manure fronrstables, collecting it together in the yard, or for any similar purpose.

This machine may be made either of wood or iron, or bothcombined. The handles A andthe beam B may be of wood, and the remainderof iron, either wrought or malleable.

In large stables, where a great number ofhorses or oattleare kept, and themamrre is all to beremoved to one point, this will be found a valuable labor-sav# ing machine.

'The beam B is divided or formed in two parts at the rear end, thus connecting-with the hook by hinged' joints at two diierent points, as may be seen by ref-l erence to the drawings.

The handles are made fastto the two sides of the beam, in front, and near the hook C, by vscrews or bolts.

Notches or slats are cut in the under side of the handles, at a point over the topf of the hook,vasseen at i', i, in iig. 2.' When the hook is in an upright position, the upper part fits into the slots i t', 'and is held firmly.

The lever e, the end of whichextends into the slot -7',in the back part of the fhook C, enables us to lift or move the machine by the handles, without relieving the hook from its upright position.

' The manner of operatingis this. Attaching a horse to the beam B, and placing the hook, in the position shown in fig. l, at the farther end of the stable, we start the horse, taking hold of the handles, to 'steady' and guide it. We collect, as we move along, all `the straw and manure, cairying it to the point desired. Then,

.by disengaging the lever e, and raising the handlesA,

the hook is broughtinto the position shown in tig. 2, and relieved of its load. In that position it is returned to thestable, when we arrive at the starting-point, and by- Simply raising the machine by the handles, the hook drops into position again, and is ready for use.

We make the hook or rake part two or two and a half feet long, as may seem desirable.

When'the beam B is vmade of wood, it may be at-g tached to the hook C, in the centre, by a single joint, the handles being made-.fast to each .side thereof', as seen in fig. 4.

By reference tothe drawings it will be seen that the handles in ligs. 1 and 2 are turned upward vand inward at the lower end, thus forming hooks or stopsp p, so arranged as to Strike on the topfof the 'beam .B, when the hookV is in theposition shown in g. 2. Y

This arrangement enables us to raise the machine by the handles, and bring the hook into-a perpendiou vlar position when desired.

We are aware that manure-hooks have been made,

provided with a lever or catch, forming a stop or support for thel hook this'we do` not claim. What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- j l.A The handles A, provided withthe slots t' fl', and the stops p 1), in combination with the Vbeam B and hook C, substantially as. described, and for the pur-l poses set forth.

2. The lever e, Ito act in conjunction with the slot j, as and for the purposes specified'.

In testimony whereof, we have signed our names to this specilicatiom in thevpresence of two subscribing witnesses. p y

MICHAEL STOLL. HENRY GROSS. Witnesses z B. S. PETERS,

JOHN LARESH. 

